The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World Audiobook (Free)

A New York Moments bestseller about how exactly pet cats conquered the world and our hearts with this “deep and illuminating perspective on well known household companion” (Huffington Post).

House cats rule bedrooms and back alleys, deserted Antarctic islands, even cyberspace. And unlike canines, cats offer humans no practical benefit. The simple truth is they are unfortunately incompetent mouse-catchers and today create a threat to numerous ecosystems. However, we love them still.

In the “eminently readable and gently funny” (Library about The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World Journal, starred evaluate) The Lion in the Living Room, Abigail Tucker travels through world history, natural science, and pop culture to meet up breeders, activists, and scientists who’ve dedicated their lives to cats. She trips the labs where people evaluate feline bone fragments unearthed in the first individual settlements, treks through the Floridian wilderness searching for house cats-turned-hunters around the loose, and hangs out with Lil Bub, one of the world’s biggest celebrities-who simply happens to be a cat.

“Interesting” (Richmond Times-Dispatch) and “lighthearted” (The Seattle Moments), Tucker shows how these tiny felines have used their relationship with humans to become perhaps one of the most powerful pets on earth. A “exciting examine that pounces back and forth between evolutionary science and popular tradition” (The Baltimore Sun), The Lion in the Living Space suggests that we learn that the correct reaction to a residence cat, it seems, might not be aww but awe.